A couple of months ago our AI, which had been "coming and going", finally went. We replaced it with a rebuilt unit from "The Gyro House", which had the dual effect of getting our autopilot working properly again. Last month, our DG failed completely and suddenly, after a normal landing in Pella,...

Does anyone out there have experience with having installed a tanis heater when a engine analyzer is already in place. I have a JPI Classic Scanner (EGT/CHT) that had bayonnet-type probee for CHT. Tanis has a kit designed for this sitation, but after we installed the kit, none of the CHT readings...

I'm hoping folks on this newsgroup can give me some ideas to take back to my flying club. We currently have 24 members and 3 aircraft. Through years of less than stellar management the officers the club has found itself in the position of facing some very expensive upgrades. As a result the...

I put a voltmeter on the alternator output and measured between 32-35 AC volts at moderate load and moderate RPM. Looks like some diodes have decided to give up. Does anyone have any info on the Plane-Power alternators? There is a PMA'd replacement for my aircraft, and I will go that direction...

What is the performance details for 150hp conversion C152. How does it compare with PA18-150? thanks, Arthur

My dad has a '67 260 - totally awesome aircraft - very fast! His is worth approx $100,000, but has nice paint and interior. Off the cuff, I'd say $65,000 sounds good, but you could check the value on the AOPA website, if you are a member. Also, the International Comanche Society is a good source...

Jim, you and your company were quite courteous on a prop bolt exchange, so I was gonna order some more mdse. And still hope to, even after this. This morning I tried to order a Concorde battery for a friend's 172, and the surly woman in Griffin rejected the card, for curious reasons. After a...

They said they are making 5 per month, then there should be 100+ flying out there now. Anyone has experience building and flying one of them? They appear to be the only one in the ultra light jet category out there flying. Does it really take 9 months to assemble them together from the kit?

Had a major radio install on my Baron- a Garmin 530W and 430W. As part of the install the avionics shop moved the radar display. On the trip home (the same trip where in IMC the alternator quit) I turned the radar on, since there were some storms over my home airport as indicated by the...

I read an interesting thread where someone pointed out that all shimmy preventitive devices are designed to stop something that has already started, and that wheel balancing may stop a shimmy from ever starting. Makes sense, but my question is; What, if any, is the normal method of balancing...

Hello all... I keep seeing the different letter variants for C-172 airplanes (e.g., Cessna 172L, Cessna 172N) but I have no idea how different is which variant from each other... Is there any website or other resource where I can find specs for each of the Cessna 172 variants...? Any info greatly...

I just got my first issue of "Light Plane Maintenance" magazine. I am really enjoying it. In their free book "40 Top Maintenance Tips" (p27), they say "get the Halon extinguisher while they are still legal." As I recall, there has been some issue that inhaling Halon can be pretty bad for people's...

I need 30 answers by Friday morning. What is your favorite type of car? (The one you dreamed of as a kid, that is) BMW Lamborghini Farrari Jaguar

You know that life is good, when your garbage bin contains 12 empty quarts of aeroshell W100, and 6 empty MGD bottles. Today I installed the oil "quick change" valve, then went flying for 30 minutes, then changed the oil. Oh that makes it SO much easier! No safety wire, no "channeling" the oil...

Took off Saturday morning at 6:30 still very dark. Got my IFR clearance in the air and soon was in solid IMC. Some clouds were nasty black. Got course deviation don't like to bounce my plane around. 2 hours into the flight the clouds were not as nasty. 30 minutes later I landed at SGJ for fuel....

Just saw an article by AP. It seems that Auburn University has made a breakthrough in fuel cell research. They now have a practical way of catalytically separating the hydrogen from the carbon and sulphur in conventional fuels such as diesel. When used in a vehicle equipped with a fuel cell, fuel...

You may have seen some of my threads over the past 6-8 months, about an unpredictable flakey radio problem I was having. It seemed to have been resolved by replacing a relay in the audio panel. I have flown the plane for a few months now, with no issues, until recently. I have encountered the...

I have a sticky main strut in my Pa-28-151. My engineer has suggested changing the o-rings and valves of both struts. I was curious about the whole structure and have looked everywhere in the internet with no luck Any suggestions where I could find them? Gus

Prices and details on the website : http://rockwellcommander112.monsite.wanadoo.fr Thankyou

I have a piper turbo arrow with a TSIO-360-FB engine. It has the original waste gate on the turbo, and an after market turbo plus intercooler. I recently made a long trip, and got the plane up to 14000 for the first time in a long time. I was having trouble keeping the exhaust temp down. I had the...